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enNew York Times' Google Glass App Reads Stories to Youhttp://www.adweek.com/news/technology/new-york-times-google-glass-app-reads-stories-you-148946
Christopher Heine<p>
The New York Times is one of the initial major publishers to unveil a <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-glass-what-its-have-iphone-attached-your-face-148246" target="_blank">Google Glass</a> app, which will allow the currently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/18/google-glass-distribution-begins/" target="_blank">scant</a> number of users of the wearable device to access stories on the go. The app&#39;s audio component reads headlines and story summaries aloud and provides breaking news alerts.</p>
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Per an NYT rep, who via email referred to the app as a &quot;lightweight service,&quot; it recently was built on <a href="https://developers.google.com/glass/" target="_blank">Google Mirror API</a>. The Times&#39; app requests <a href="https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/glass.timeline+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/glass.location+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile&amp;response_type=code&amp;access_type=offline&amp;redirect_uri=http://www.nytimes.com/googleglass&amp;approval_prompt=force&amp;client_id=143532828210.apps.googleusercontent.com&amp;hl=en&amp;from_login=1&amp;as=-71b7335118e0aea3&amp;pli=1&amp;authuser=0" target="_blank">permission</a> to access basic information from users&#39; Google accounts as well as their locations.</p>
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Earlier this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-glass-2014-eric-schmidt-20130423,0,3402891.story" target="_blank">said</a> that the general release for Glass won&#39;t likely be until 2014. Eight thousand contest winners are currently receiving the spectacles-like tech device&mdash;but not before forking over $1,500 and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/04/google-says-may-not-resell-in-google-glass-user-agreement/" target="_blank">signing away their rights</a> to re-sell the unit.</p>
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Meanwhile, Science Inc. partner Peter Pham, a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpham" target="_blank">Silicon Valley vet</a> who is probably best known for co-founding the mobile app <a href="http://www.color.com/" target="_blank">Color</a>, got the rare opportunity to take Google Glass for a brief test spin in San Francisco last month and <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/google-glass-what-its-have-iphone-attached-your-face-148246" target="_blank">gave his reflections</a> on the experience to Adweek.</p>
TechnologyGlassholesGoogleGoogle GlassMobile advertisingmobile marketingChristopher HeineNew York TimesProject GlassNewspaperFri, 26 Apr 2013 19:27:18 +0000148946 at http://www.adweek.com